Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

One must steer, not talk.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

Information is not knowledge.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

My reputation grows with every failure.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

I’ve never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have any newspapers or magazines to read.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.